Dumping-wagon



(No Model.)

' R. PITZ-ROY.

DUMPVING WAGON.

No. 491,343. Patented Peb. 7, 1893.

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Unirse Sterns Parenti @irreal ROBERT FlTZ-ROY, OF BRIDGEPORT,CONNEOTGU'I".

DUMPlNG-WAGON.

SPEGIFIOTXON forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,343, dated February7, 1893.

Application filed May l2, 1892, Serial No. 432,709- (llo model.)

,To alf; roh/omit' man concern:

` Be it known that I, ROBERT FWZ-ROY, a citiaen of thellnited States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ot'Connecticut, hare invented certain new and useful Improvements inDumping-llagons; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appcrtains to malte and use thesame. y

My invention has Afor its object to produce a dumping wagon in which thebody shall be carried relatively low, in which the pivotal point uponwhich the body turns shall be forward ot the rear axle so as to throw alarge portion ol' the weight on the front axle, in which the body may beeasily dumped and returned to place, and all the parts of which moreovershall be simple and economicaly in oost and thoroughly durable in use.

1With these ends in view lhave devised the .improved dumping wagon whichl will now describe referring by numbers to the accompanying drawingsforming part of this speciiicatien in which,

Figure l is a longitudinal section on the line a; in Fig. Fig. 2 asectional plan vieiv of the body, seat and tool box being removed, theline being indicated by y y in Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a rear elevationthe Wheels being partially broken away.

l denotes the rear axle, 2 the rear wheel, 3 the front axle, d the frontwheel, 5 the axle bed, G the tongue hounds,7 the transom plate bar, Sthe fifth Wheel blocks, 9 the fifth wheel, l@ the top carriage parts, llthe hing bolt, l2 the tool box, 13 the seat and le the toot board all ofwhich may be of any ordinary or preferred construction although inpractice l ordinarily build these parts substantially as shown in thedrawings.

l5 denotes the parts ot' a double reach which rests 'upon the rear axleand is made solid therewith by means of iron plates braces and boltswhich constitutes clips as at 1G. The parts 'of the double reach areplaced edgeirise so as to give the greatest amount of strength and alsoto serve as an axle block thus dispensing with the ordinary rear axlebloeit. The forward ends of the parts of the reach are made of. lessheight than the rear ends and rest upon and are rigidly bolted to thetop carriage parts, it being an important feature of myiuiprovedconstruction that the line of draft at the freut axle is on the samehorizontal plane as the line of draft at the rear axle. l

17 denotes the body, 1S the sills, 19 cross pieces between the sillsupon which the bottom rests, and 2O a cross piece between the sillswhich extends downward between the parts of the reach and preventslateral motion of the body under any circumstances. Cross piece 2O whenthe parts are in normal position rests upon a cross piece 2l the ends ofwhich are niortised into or otherwise rigidly secured to the parts ofthe reach. The top of the parts of the reach, the under side of thesills, the under side ot" cross piece 2O and the upper side of crosspiece 2l are all provided with wearing plates 22. The body is connectedto cross piece 2l by means of heavy attaching plates 23 bolted to thesills and provided with downwardly extending arms 2i.

25 denotes heavy eye-bolts which extend backward from cross piece 2l,and 26 a heavy rod which extends through both parts of the reach,through arms 24: and through the eyebolts, said rod constituting a pivotupon which the body swings. The weight of the body in use rests entirelyupon the reach, in which position it is locked by a swinging latch 27pivoted to some portion of the body, the lower end of which is shown asengaging an eye 28 in a cross piece 29 between the parts of the reach.When it is desired to dump the body the latch is disengaged from the eyeand the forward end of the body lifted. During the instant that the bodyis swinging the weight thereof is upon cross rod 26 but at all othertimes there is no weight upon this rod, the body being supportedentirely by the reach. lu practice the pivotal point of the body may ormay not be slightly out of center. ln the drawings l have shown thepivotal point as slight-ly nearer to the rear end of the body.

Having thus described my invention, l claim l. In combination, the frontand rear arles, the doubled reach connected thereto, the cross bar 2i,extending between the lower por- IOO tions of side members of the doublereach and of less height than said side members, the wagon body adaptedin Width to rest on the side members and carrying the cross bar 2Odepending below the sills of the body and adapted in length to extendonly partially across the Wagon body and to fit between the upperportions of the reach members upon the cross bar 2l, and the arms 24,depending from the Wagon body along the rear faces of the bars 20, 2land pivotally connected to the cross bar 2l, substantially as described.

2. In combination, the front and rear axles, the double reach connectedthereto, the cross bar 2l extending between the side members of thedouble reach, the Wagon body adapted to rest on the double reach, thecross rod 26 arranged adjacent to the rear face of the cross ROBERTFITZ-ROY. Witnesses:

A. M. WoosTER, MATTIE K. DAVIS.

